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“Prove that body belongs to Shashinath Jha”
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday said the Central Bureau of Investigation would have to prove that the body exhumed from a village near Ranchi was of former Union Minister Sibu Soren’s private secretary Shashinath Jha for justifying the conviction of Mr. Soren by the trial court for the murder of Jha.
A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice R.S. Sodhi and Justice H.R. Malhotra made this observation while hearing an appeal by Mr. Soren against his conviction last year.
“The investigating agency will have to prove that the body exhumed was of Shashinath Jha. Only then can Mr. Soren be convicted of the murder of his private secretary,” the Bench said.
A Delhi court last year had awarded life imprisonment to Mr. Soren and four others in the case.
He is at present lodged in a jail in Jharkhand.
Shashinath Jha was abducted on May 22, 1994, from Dhaula Kuan in South-West Delhi and later murdered in a residential colony in Ranchi as he had knowledge about the payment of bribe to four erstwhile Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MPs, including Mr. Soren, who had voted against the no-confidence motion against the P.V. Narasimha Rao Government in July 1993.
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